Food Temple 2025: Brazil sets the mood at Carreau du Temple
Food Temple returns for a colorful 9th edition. The Carreau du Temple's culinary and cultural festival puts Brazil in the spotlight, with four days of gourmet and festive discoveries to the rhythm of the samba, orchestrated by Brazilian chef Alessandra Montagne, the festival's godmother.
From September 19 to 21, 2025, the festival will feature three major dining events. On Friday evening, Marcelo Schambeck (Capincho restaurant, Porto Alegre) will sign a dinner with southern Brazilian accents, in the kitchens of Lago, blending local, Argentinean and Uruguayan influences. on Saturday lunchtime, chef Roberta Sudbrack - ranked among the top 50 chefs in South America - will team up with Alessandra Montagne for a four-handed lunch. Finally, the weekend comes to a close with Tia Surica's legendary feijoada. at 84, this samba singer has been preparing this dish, which has become Rio de Janeiro's intangible cultural heritage, for over twenty years.
A 100% Brazilian culinary program
in addition to dinners (reservations required), the public will have access to traditional pop-up restaurants, pastries and ice creams, as well as a cachaça and Brazilian wine bar.connoisseurs can also try their hand at culinary techniques at masterclasses hosted by the chefs on hand, to discover gastronomic classics: moqueca baianaise, carreteiro com pinhão, cachaça....
And all weekend long, the Carreau du Temple market hall will host a 100% Brazilian market, offering coffee, chocolate and sweet and savoury specialities.es and savoury specialities, while Monsieur Pão de Queijo 's pão de queijo factory will be offering a continuous tasting of these emblematic cheese rolls.
alessandra Montagne
Cultural immersion
Beyond the flavors, the artistic program transports visitors to the heart of Brazil. A photographic exhibition, meetings and shows will complete the gourmet program. calixto Neto's"Feijoada" will open the festivities on Thursday evening with a choreo-gastronomic performance questioning the origins of this emblematic dish of slave cuisine. Concerts will follow one another all weekend long: traditional maracatu with Tamaraca, ancestral jongo with Jongo da Serrinha, authentic samba with Tia Surica and the Portela School, not forgetting the north-eastern rhythms of forró with Virginia Cambuci.
Food Temple Brazil
- September 19 to 21, 2025 (Feijoada show on the 18th)
- Le Carreau du Temple - 2, rue Perrée, 75003 Paris
- Full program and reservations at www.lecarreaudutemple.eu/evenements/food-temple-bresil
